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obama tried to call both mr. boehner and the senator republican leader, mitch mcconnell but was told they were asleep. >> wake them up, for goodness sake. >> he is the president. >> wake him up. >> yesterday, yesterday, senate majority leader harry reid struck a tone of cautious optimism. >> it's better to dance than to fight. it's bettor work together. i want to work together but i want everyone to also understand, you can't push us around. >> hours later there was some reason for hope. the word revenue which speaker boehner used 15 times in a 12-minute press conference and not always in a completely negative context. >> the news via tax reform. we're willing to accept new revenue under the right conditions. republicans have signaled a willingness to accept new revenue. if it comes from growth and reform. >> has boehner opened the door to compromise and extended an actual olive branch. he alluded to the grand bargain that slipped away a year ago. >> closer to the critical mass needed legislatively to get tax ref
obama tried to call both mr. boehner and the senator republican leader, mitch mcconnell but was told they were asleep. >> wake them up, for goodness sake. >> he is the president. >> wake him up. >> yesterday, yesterday, senate majority leader harry reid struck a tone of cautious optimism. >> it's better to dance than to fight. it's bettor work together. i want to work together but i want everyone to also understand, you can't push us around. >> hours later...
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>> i do. >> from your lips. >> from my lips to obama's ears. luke russert, my friend, we have to leave it there. we know that you and your boat shoes will be making some tracks in the next -- >> too cold for the boat shoes. switched to the bucks. >> the bucks. a seasonal shoe. i should have known. >> seasonal shoe. you have hipster sam stein there. he's also a good stylist. >> hipster thrown out. >> martin. >> you got everything. >> luke russert thank you as always. happy early thanksgiving my friend. >> you as well. >> "time" magazine rana fa ru har, happy early thanksgiving to you. >> thank you. >> the holidays are upon us. we will talk turkey, literally, with the "new york times" national editor. that's up ahead. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a
>> i do. >> from your lips. >> from my lips to obama's ears. luke russert, my friend, we have to leave it there. we know that you and your boat shoes will be making some tracks in the next -- >> too cold for the boat shoes. switched to the bucks. >> the bucks. a seasonal shoe. i should have known. >> seasonal shoe. you have hipster sam stein there. he's also a good stylist. >> hipster thrown out. >> martin. >> you got everything. >>...
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winning the swing states, obama ahead nationally. that seems like a high number to me but i think he's doing the math and he may in his rhetoric pushing all his chips in on this. 10% is a reasonable chance. >> yes. it is. we talk a lot about the optics of this and the messaging and so forth and i will say on purely the swagger metrics which is an official -- >> oh, yeah. >> barometer for these things, that the obama campaign, we know that the president is a sportsman, he likes playing games, very competitive and this is like a moment for someone who likes sports. there's the trash talking, there is the swagger, and that filters down to his chief surrogates. david axelrod and the mustache bet, i'll play a little sound, david axelrod talking about his mustache this morning on "morning joe." >> we have work to do today to get our vote out, but i believe we're going to get our vote out as we did in the early vote and have a very good day. joe, let me just say, i bought myself a new mustache comb because i'm going to be neegd it. >> david
winning the swing states, obama ahead nationally. that seems like a high number to me but i think he's doing the math and he may in his rhetoric pushing all his chips in on this. 10% is a reasonable chance. >> yes. it is. we talk a lot about the optics of this and the messaging and so forth and i will say on purely the swagger metrics which is an official -- >> oh, yeah. >> barometer for these things, that the obama campaign, we know that the president is a sportsman, he likes...
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and that's why i'm voting for obama. to me, if indeed governor romney loses, the -- how this fissure between the mainstream and the tail that is wagging its dog, the tea party, how that's going to play out. as you say, eric, there will be conservatives saying oh, we should have nominated santorum. but it's obviously a more complicated problem for them than that. and it's going to be, again, if indeed the president is re-elected, the republican arguments afterward are going to be fascinating. >> you know what they need? they need an impassioned centrist in the republican party that can speak from his or her loins. i just wanted to say the word loins again for everybody watching this broadcast. after the break, despite its well documented issues courting the women's vote, team romney lately has been pushing a narrative that has closed the gender gap. we'll have cecil richards to unpack the myth when we return live to democracy plaza, next on "now." [ male announcer ] you like who you are... and you learned something along
and that's why i'm voting for obama. to me, if indeed governor romney loses, the -- how this fissure between the mainstream and the tail that is wagging its dog, the tea party, how that's going to play out. as you say, eric, there will be conservatives saying oh, we should have nominated santorum. but it's obviously a more complicated problem for them than that. and it's going to be, again, if indeed the president is re-elected, the republican arguments afterward are going to be fascinating....
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phillips'. >>> does barack obama now have a mandate? >> i don't think so because they also re-elected the house republicans. whether people intended or not, we've got divided government. >> you don't think there's a mandate here? >> i don't. because then they would have put nancy pelosi in charge of the house of representatives. see, i think these ideas that we talked about, i think they're popular ideas. this is a very close election. >> despite a scoreboard of 332 to 206, congressman paul ryan refuses to admit that president obama might have a mandate to push his agenda, a big part of which includes raising taxes on high earners. this week the president is holding court with ally and opponents to discuss the upcoming fiscal cliff. yesterday, at a meeting with progressive leaders the president said he would not give in to republican demands to extend all of the bush tax cuts. today he will meet with business leaders. the discussions underscore the president's opposing constituencies, but according to new york magazine's jonathan chaits
phillips'. >>> does barack obama now have a mandate? >> i don't think so because they also re-elected the house republicans. whether people intended or not, we've got divided government. >> you don't think there's a mandate here? >> i don't. because then they would have put nancy pelosi in charge of the house of representatives. see, i think these ideas that we talked about, i think they're popular ideas. this is a very close election. >> despite a scoreboard of...
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president obama and governor romney's renewed campaign come as the latest polls show president obama lead big six points in eye but locked in a tight balle with romney in new hampshire and wisconsin. nearly all interviews conducted before hurricane sandy, which just might end up being the defining moment of this election. joining me today to discuss all of this and more, msnbc political analyst and national affairs editor for "new york" magazine, john heilemann. msnbc political analyst and executive editor of msnbc.com, richard wolffe. msnbc political analyst, jonathan alter of bloomberg view, and msnbc political analyst and former dnc, karen finney, hopefully joining us shortly. john, i go to you first. in terms of sandy being an inflection point, game changer, if you will, a term we do not toss around lightly, are we -- is it -- is it a game changer? can you prognosticate that far? do you think the president is stronger coming out of the sandy response as a candidate? >> look, there's no question that if you think about this storm and what it's done to the media environment over th
president obama and governor romney's renewed campaign come as the latest polls show president obama lead big six points in eye but locked in a tight balle with romney in new hampshire and wisconsin. nearly all interviews conducted before hurricane sandy, which just might end up being the defining moment of this election. joining me today to discuss all of this and more, msnbc political analyst and national affairs editor for "new york" magazine, john heilemann. msnbc political...
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a lot of the gifts that obama gave, like obama care, could have given money back to taxpayers through deficit reduction, three reducing health care expenses, student loans the same thing. took the cost out of student loans to taxpayers. the gifts that romney wanted to give to the rich supposedly would have come back to us expanding the economy though there was no evidence of that. romney's gift would have cost taxpayers money. obama's gift saved taxpayers money. >> talk about the splintering inside the republican party or what seems to be happening, you're a supporter of the jindal position which is more tolerant, less coated in racial rhetoric, do you think there's room in the republican party for both of these kinds of voices which is to say, one group of people which is you know karl rove is doubling down saying conservatives shouldn't abandon principles what they need to work on is messaging and bobby jindal advocating for a wholesale rethinking of what conservatism and what the grand old party means in the 2th century. >> i'm encouraged there are more voices and people in the par
a lot of the gifts that obama gave, like obama care, could have given money back to taxpayers through deficit reduction, three reducing health care expenses, student loans the same thing. took the cost out of student loans to taxpayers. the gifts that romney wanted to give to the rich supposedly would have come back to us expanding the economy though there was no evidence of that. romney's gift would have cost taxpayers money. obama's gift saved taxpayers money. >> talk about the...
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comes down to john boehner and president obama. i will reed an excerpt from pegeny noonan in the "wall street journal" would disagree with melissa this is not the old-school politic s yore. beggy writes -- when fire logs burned without fire starters and apple pies were baked in everybody's home. >> not sold in costco. >> if only everything could be like ronald reagan. >> and tip o'neill. >> the thing is, and i think it is true that -- i know peggy noonan likes the grand er and everything grand, but the senate isn't so relevant. this being a budget and tax bill they can do reconciliation. this is a house problem. the difference is that tip o'neill actually had influence with his caucus. john boehner has precious influence with the part of his caucus the most recalcitrant on these issues. in the current lame duck congress john boehner still has the same problem, resistant people who will not go along with a deal so the question is, whether or not he can deliver even the 20 or 25 votes he needs if pelosi did what she always does and d
comes down to john boehner and president obama. i will reed an excerpt from pegeny noonan in the "wall street journal" would disagree with melissa this is not the old-school politic s yore. beggy writes -- when fire logs burned without fire starters and apple pies were baked in everybody's home. >> not sold in costco. >> if only everything could be like ronald reagan. >> and tip o'neill. >> the thing is, and i think it is true that -- i know peggy noonan likes...
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to give the scenario as presented by ambassador rice and president obama. three weeks before an election. >> ambassador rice said today absolutely it was wrong. i don't understand the cia said clearly that information was wrong. and they knew by the 22nd it was wrong. yet, they have not cleared that
to give the scenario as presented by ambassador rice and president obama. three weeks before an election. >> ambassador rice said today absolutely it was wrong. i don't understand the cia said clearly that information was wrong. and they knew by the 22nd it was wrong. yet, they have not cleared that
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obama is kind of closing on a strong note. some of the stuff does signal the people that leads people who are just partisan democrats okay with obama, obama is not scary, he's not alienating, you know, people up for grabs a little bit, he's closing on a slightly strong note. i think frank bruni is right on the margins this can shape the tone of the last week of coverage a little bit. >> it has been an extraordinary week, extraordinary week. thank you to new york magazine's jonathan chaits as ari said, his writings have caught fire on the internet and everyone should check out the endorsement. a programming note with the election days away, live this week, live this weekend, planned parenthood president cease seal richards and others among our guests do not miss the special edition of "now" saturday at the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the east coast. after the break, halloween may be over, but donald trump is still dressed up as a lunatic birther with money to burn. his year-round costume, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ till you finish your
obama is kind of closing on a strong note. some of the stuff does signal the people that leads people who are just partisan democrats okay with obama, obama is not scary, he's not alienating, you know, people up for grabs a little bit, he's closing on a slightly strong note. i think frank bruni is right on the margins this can shape the tone of the last week of coverage a little bit. >> it has been an extraordinary week, extraordinary week. thank you to new york magazine's jonathan chaits...
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if steve is right and if, you know, obama care, the kind of seat of obama care is his legacy, what's doubly interesting there is how accidental the birth of the kind of proto obama care, romney care in massachusetts was. what happened there was a buddy of his tom, the founder of staples, you know, kind of casually mentioned to mitt when he was coming in as governor that, you know, some doctors over at mass general were having trouble dealing with their uninsured and there wasn't any kind of internal, you know, deep ideological commitment to making this happen. >> very much sort of the accidental tourist. >> totally. >> in terms of politics. we have to go. the other thing we didn't talk about, jonathan, mitt romney sort of an ac crow nistic 1950s character in an america proven to be a very very different place than the 1950sing and '60s, a browner, more female, younger and more fired up. >> and a little more progressive. the problem mitt romney had, he brought confidence or he thought he did, but he was rutterless. the competence doesn't mean anything if people look at you and think y
if steve is right and if, you know, obama care, the kind of seat of obama care is his legacy, what's doubly interesting there is how accidental the birth of the kind of proto obama care, romney care in massachusetts was. what happened there was a buddy of his tom, the founder of staples, you know, kind of casually mentioned to mitt when he was coming in as governor that, you know, some doctors over at mass general were having trouble dealing with their uninsured and there wasn't any kind of...
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i don't think obama is viewed that way. psychically that's been something held back elected democrats from challenging the sort of thing. >> let me say there are practical arguments to produce the amount of surveillance we do. one of the problems be that these reporting has shown is that we do too much surveillance to sort through the information. at a certain point it becomes a practical problem and obstacle to doing effective espionage and effective security work if you just have too much information that's not -- >> stop reading jay mcinnereny's e-mail. >> not a big constituency you know for -- >> for privacy controls. >> most people assume that they're not being monitored. >> that's an assumption. >> most assume they're leading basically upright lives and maybe the terrorists out there are communicating by e-mail and the fbi -- >> or having illicit love affairs as the case may be which is sort of none of our business. >> i wonder if you start reading the e-mails of the washington press corps that likes to work themselve
i don't think obama is viewed that way. psychically that's been something held back elected democrats from challenging the sort of thing. >> let me say there are practical arguments to produce the amount of surveillance we do. one of the problems be that these reporting has shown is that we do too much surveillance to sort through the information. at a certain point it becomes a practical problem and obstacle to doing effective espionage and effective security work if you just have too...
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>> well, it is a huge gulf between candidate obama and president obama. now, some people are going to cut him some slack and say, look, it's one thing when you're running because you don't have the daily intel, you don't have the daily briefings, you don't know where a likely strike is to occur. on the other hand, if the rules that you abide by while candidating and arguing that you should be the president don't apply to you once you become president, then you've got to excuse everybody from george bush back to whoever. i think there's a real tension here and i think the aclu and progressive groups are right to apply the pressure. the question is to what degree can you acknowledge the legitimacy of a response to terror, even perhaps using surgical strikes or some of the drones and at the same time say, hey, that stuff has gotten out of hand and we have to figure out a way to get back in. and if you say sunshine is the law, that you want people to be exposed, then you're practicing directly contrary to what you've argued. >> i want to read briefly from an
>> well, it is a huge gulf between candidate obama and president obama. now, some people are going to cut him some slack and say, look, it's one thing when you're running because you don't have the daily intel, you don't have the daily briefings, you don't know where a likely strike is to occur. on the other hand, if the rules that you abide by while candidating and arguing that you should be the president don't apply to you once you become president, then you've got to excuse everybody...
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obama care. governor romney had vowed repeal the affordable care act on day one but the president's re-election implementation. ezra klein notes the president's financial reforms and expiring bush tax cuts are victories ensured by last night's results. he writes -- in 2008 the election was a vote for hope in 2012 his re-election carries achange. joining us is presidential historian michael thanks for joining the program. >> pleasure alex. >> really interesting here in terms of how president obama is treated in the long arc of had history and i guess can you give us an example, the historian you are, of previous presidents that have had rocky first terms but whose second terms cement their first terms? >> they generally don't tend to because alex if you look over the last century, usually these two-termres have the awful second terms, almost without exception. lot of reasons for that. but one of them has been is the best case of this or lbj, during the first term and in lbj's case 1964, there are
obama care. governor romney had vowed repeal the affordable care act on day one but the president's re-election implementation. ezra klein notes the president's financial reforms and expiring bush tax cuts are victories ensured by last night's results. he writes -- in 2008 the election was a vote for hope in 2012 his re-election carries achange. joining us is presidential historian michael thanks for joining the program. >> pleasure alex. >> really interesting here in terms of how...
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one that will relent on tax increases to make a deal with president obama? house speaker john boehner said no way. >> i told tom earlier in our conference meeting that i disagreed with him. you're not going to grow the economy if you raise tax rates on the top two rates. it will hurt small businesses and hurt our economy. >> joining me now from washington, d.c., the democratic senator from washington, patty murray, a member of the senate budget committee. it is great to have you on the program. >> well, thank you, alex. nice to chat with you. >> senator, let's talk about the fiscal cliff. increasingly we are referring to it as the fiscal curve, possibly among some folks in our circle, the fiscal mole hill. you have advocated going over the fiscal cliff as a way for both democrats and republicans to make a deal and i will call to mind -- i will call to everyone's attention comments you made at the brookings institution this summer when you said if the bush tax cuts expire every proposal will be a tax cut proposal and the norquist pledge will no longer keep re
one that will relent on tax increases to make a deal with president obama? house speaker john boehner said no way. >> i told tom earlier in our conference meeting that i disagreed with him. you're not going to grow the economy if you raise tax rates on the top two rates. it will hurt small businesses and hurt our economy. >> joining me now from washington, d.c., the democratic senator from washington, patty murray, a member of the senate budget committee. it is great to have you on...
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obama may take another look. you know, you change it here and there and say now that we've made these changes in bowles-simpson, now it's there. >> he was walking it back already. >> bowles and simpson are taking their act on the rooed to try to whip up popular support. >> the treasury secretary, one thing the president likes about tim geithner he had a good personal relationship, geithner could come over to the white house and chat about what was going on with the economy. the president has a good relationship with jack. he is there tight. he's been very pleased with how he's done as the chief of staff and i think it's right he's a front runner for the job. >> josh, in terms of the agenda that president can push forward independent of dodd/frank the question of tax reform and what happens to carried interest and capital gains, those deeply affect folks on wall street, do you think they're sort of prepared to take the pain as far as reform on those two issues? >> absolutely. i don't think there's pain in getting
obama may take another look. you know, you change it here and there and say now that we've made these changes in bowles-simpson, now it's there. >> he was walking it back already. >> bowles and simpson are taking their act on the rooed to try to whip up popular support. >> the treasury secretary, one thing the president likes about tim geithner he had a good personal relationship, geithner could come over to the white house and chat about what was going on with the economy....
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money penny to the obama campaign, mr. bill burton. sort of weird to read a quote from you to you. >> it's a little strange. >> those ads in the summer a lot of folks thought were harsh, perhaps too harsh, perhaps playing low ball from a campaign, from a candidate that has sort of been above that kind of fisticuffs. and yet, you guys are reairing them. they've clearly worked for team obama, $30 million ad buy as i mentioned. the summer strategy seems to have been the right one. do you have any regrets about it? >> >> no. for starters. >> it's working. >> exactly. no asymmetrics a nonpartisan firm that graded all the ads on their effectiveness today said one of our ads was the most effective ad of the cycle based on focus groups they've done on the different ads over the course of this election. you know, what we were doing with these ads was, more than just telling the story of what mitt romney did at bain, it was a story about a guy who always stood up for his partners and himself making sure he made plenty of money but w
money penny to the obama campaign, mr. bill burton. sort of weird to read a quote from you to you. >> it's a little strange. >> those ads in the summer a lot of folks thought were harsh, perhaps too harsh, perhaps playing low ball from a campaign, from a candidate that has sort of been above that kind of fisticuffs. and yet, you guys are reairing them. they've clearly worked for team obama, $30 million ad buy as i mentioned. the summer strategy seems to have been the right one. do...
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clearly, president obama won. sort of. and the reason why sort of. >> clearly, sort of. >> and here's why. obviously, the republicans still control the house. so there is a little bit of give and take here. so the question becomes is whether or not the president can support some type of entitlement reform, legitimate entitlement reform, and obviously, can speaker boehner raise revenues? maybe that's not raising taxes, per se, but perhaps raising revenue. let's go to president bush for a second, this is important. president bush 41. remember what he did in 1988? he said, read my lips, no new taxes. and then he sat down with then speaker of the house, whatever his name was, tom something, and he said, guess what, i was wrong back in 1988. we have to raise taxes and we also have to cut entitlement reform, because we're in a deep recession. and look what happened during the 1990s. we experienced the are largest and longest piece in our history. >> one difference here, i want to bring nick in, one big difference, we have a diff
clearly, president obama won. sort of. and the reason why sort of. >> clearly, sort of. >> and here's why. obviously, the republicans still control the house. so there is a little bit of give and take here. so the question becomes is whether or not the president can support some type of entitlement reform, legitimate entitlement reform, and obviously, can speaker boehner raise revenues? maybe that's not raising taxes, per se, but perhaps raising revenue. let's go to president bush...
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is there a role for mittens in obama world? >> the president noted that governor romney did a terrific job running the olympics and that skill set lends itself to ideas that could make the federal government work better which is a passion of the president's which he's requested reorganization authority from the congress do just that. >> translation, mitt romney may oversee the installation of a new color coded filing system in the white house. thanks for play, governor. and anyway, charm offenses aside the president knows that his real audience is with the american people. according to most recent "the washington post"/abc news poll 60% support his position on taxes while only 37% oppose it. and when you're up 23 points with the public, maybe out in public is the place to be. glenn, before we focus on the turkey sandwiches that will bring the party together, the two parties together later this hour, i want to talk about what is going on actually with the fiscal cliff. or the fiscal curve or molehill, depending how you character
is there a role for mittens in obama world? >> the president noted that governor romney did a terrific job running the olympics and that skill set lends itself to ideas that could make the federal government work better which is a passion of the president's which he's requested reorganization authority from the congress do just that. >> translation, mitt romney may oversee the installation of a new color coded filing system in the white house. thanks for play, governor. and anyway,...
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the pivot, speaking of obama's pivot to the middle east is a stupid choice. the united states has achieved nothing and only annoyed china. china can't be contained. i wish the professor would tell us what he or she really thinks. in terms of the pivot happening now, your assessment? >> i think the pivot is part of a refocus that the administration needs to make. look, you know, despite the way mitt romney talked about, you know, standing up to china, it needs to know where the united states plans to go and how it will look at actions taken by the chinese, especially economic. geopolitical, their influence on the u.n. and elsewhere and sort of stopping or advancing certain causes is important. i think the president is sending out a clear signal his second term, while he's done this year domestically at home said okay republicans you want to play, time to play, i think he's saying beginning to say internationally, okay, i'm ready to move on to the international stage and stay and do things heretofor have not done. and to allies, supporters, friends we're with y
the pivot, speaking of obama's pivot to the middle east is a stupid choice. the united states has achieved nothing and only annoyed china. china can't be contained. i wish the professor would tell us what he or she really thinks. in terms of the pivot happening now, your assessment? >> i think the pivot is part of a refocus that the administration needs to make. look, you know, despite the way mitt romney talked about, you know, standing up to china, it needs to know where the united...
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now president obama is not backing down. the white house has confirmed it's still considering promoting rice and last week the president said if mccain and graham want to go after someone, they should go after him. rice was not exactly a household name during obama's first term. but all this heat from the political players is drawing some media fire. "the new york times" maureen dowd has knocked rice as an unsavvy washington player. while the "times" editorial page came out with an endorsing of the ambassador announcing it's time to leave rice alone. jonathan capehart one of the interesting things about this debate there's a lot of talk about what susan rice has done, specifically about libya, and then there's sort of this vague idea that republicans can stop the president no matter what. take a look at something, we talked about 97 republicans in the house oppose rice. ten of them won't even make it to january when we probably have a vote in the second term. but when you look at the people who have a vote under the constitu
now president obama is not backing down. the white house has confirmed it's still considering promoting rice and last week the president said if mccain and graham want to go after someone, they should go after him. rice was not exactly a household name during obama's first term. but all this heat from the political players is drawing some media fire. "the new york times" maureen dowd has knocked rice as an unsavvy washington player. while the "times" editorial page came out...